We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:48:02 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification We need a gun pic. These two pistols have an unlikely connection. They were both taken from a German officer captured in the early days of the Normandy invasion by a soldier of the 29th Division. The interest lies in the fact that one is Austrian, the other Brit, and they were taken from a German. The story as related with the pistols is that the German's father fought in the young Rommel's division on the Italian front during WWI, where he acquired the Steyr. As his son went off to fight in WWII, he sent the pistol off to... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:49:27 -0600 Speaking of Austria, I think Gaston Glock makes some ugly pistols. They mostly seem to work OK, which peeves me even more. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html#comment-51052 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html#comment-51052 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:34:39 -0600 Hmm.. the aesthetics of firearms. They're both ugly. The Austrian one is brutally ugly; the Brit one clunkilly awkwardly ugly. The bigger Webley autoloader was even more ugly. I think the Beretta people were thinking about the Steyr when they drew the 92. (cut-away slide, and all) Of course, theirs was purty. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html#comment-51051 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/brothers_in_arms.html#comment-51051 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:08:05 -0600